The Last Full Measure Jeff ShaaraBook III of The Civil War trilogy. Gettysburg is past and the war advances to its third brutal year. On the Union side, the gulf between the politicians in Washington and the generals in the field yawns ever wider. Never has the cumbersome Union Army so desperately needed a decisive, hard nosed leader. It is at this critical moment that Lincoln places Ulysses S. Grant in command and turns the tide of war. For Robert E. Lee, Gettysburg was an